Two weeks ago, there was no new episode of The Last Man on Earth because FOX aired Tyler Perry’s delightfully baffling The Passion Live in place of its regular Sunday night lineup. I missed LMOE, but I was willing to wait…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×11): “Valhalla”
Returning to Malibu following last week’s excursion to Miami to follow Mike’s return to Earth, “Valhalla” finds the group mourning the death of Phil 2. As I touched upon last week, the thing that sets The Last Man on Earth…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (2×10): “Pitch Black”
When we last left The Last Man on Earth in December, the show ended on a double cliffhanger. the other Phil Miller (Boris Kodjoe) flatlined during a bungled appendix removal — a routine procedure he would have survived if life…
Movie Review: Race
Director Stephen Hopkins propels Race forward with the same caution as a student driver taking the wheel for the first time. Occasionally stepping on the gas and catching up to the true speed Jesse Owens’ story deserves to be told in.…
Movie Review: Tumbledown
Tumbledown is an exercise in trying to squash down the thoughts of “what could have been”. Failing itself by it’s need to over explain, with dialogue that reaches for it’s heavy hand too quickly, there’s a film underpart it’s own self-made…
Ally’s Movie Review: Sleeping with Other People
Romantic comedies never seem to receive the same level of respect as other genre contemporaries. They’re dismissed as being “just chick flicks” or “too girly,” targeting a largely female demographic by studios that don’t feel the need to pander to…
‘Horrible Bosses 2’ Review
If Seth Gordon’s Horrible Bosses (2011) was a black comedy akin to such titles as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Harold and Maude (1971), and Death to Smoochy (2002), Sean Anders’ Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) is more of a screwball…